Elections 2018

Candidacy for President Elect (2020-2022)

Theodore Arabatzis (nominated by the presidents)

Presentation Theodore Arabatzis is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a Diploma in electrical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and an MA and a PhD in history of science from Princeton University. He has been awarded fellowships from Princeton, the Dibner Institute for History of Science at MIT, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His research has focused on the history of physical sciences and on historical philosophy of science. He has published many articles in these areas in international journals and edited collections. He is the author of Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities (University of Chicago Press, 2006), and co-editor of four volumes and two special issues of journals. From 2010 to 2014 he was co-editor of the journal Metascience. He has been a member of the steering committee of the European Philosophy of Science Association (2009-2011), and a member of the Integrated HPS Committee (2009-) and its Executive Board (2015-2018). He is a founding member of the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH, https://www.rchumanities.gr/en/founding-members/). In 2017 he was awarded the IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science by the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, for his essay entitled “What’s in it for the historian of science? Reflections on the value of philosophy of science for history of science”. His full CV can be found at http://scholar.uoa.gr/tarabatz/biocv

Statement I am honored to be nominated for President of the ESHS, a society which is crucial for the future of our field in Europe and whose past Presidents include distinguished scholars. Since its founding, the Society has made tremendous progress in expanding its membership, in organizing conferences of steadily increasing quality, in supporting its official journal, in cultivating its relations with other cognate societies, and in offering younger scholars a host of lecturing opportunities, fellowships, and prizes. As President-elect I will work together with the President and the past President to consolidate and expand upon these significant achievements.

Having organized major conferences (e.g., as vice-chair of the organizing committee of the European Philosophy of Science Association Conference in 2011 and as chair of the organizing committee of the Fourth Conference on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science in 2012), I have the requisite experience to undertake, together with the President and the past President, the organization of the next conferences of ESHS. Having acquired considerable experience from my co-editorship of Metascience, I can also contribute to the further development of Centaurus, which, in addition to publishing excellent research articles, may turn into a forum for historiographical exchanges and debates of relevance to history of science in a European context. A significant part of my energy and scholarly work has focused on strengthening the ties between history of science and philosophy of science. The days when philosophy of science pontificated on the ideal characteristics of science are largely (and happily) over and, as I have argued elsewhere, there are many areas of contemporary philosophy of science that can be brought to bear on historiographical issues and concerns. In this vein I will work towards cultivating relations between the ESHS and other groups, such as the Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Committee (&HPS), History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), and Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), whose mission has been to support historiographically sensitive and socially relevant philosophical reflection on the sciences. Finally, and in my capacity as a founding member of RCH, I will work towards consolidating and strengthening the position of European history of science within the wider landscape of the Humanities in Europe.

Candidacies for Secretary

Darya Drozdova (nominated by D. Bayuk)

Deputy director of the School of Philosophy at the humanities department of the National Research University “Higher School of Economic” (Moscow, Russia)

I was trained as astrophysicist at Moscow State University (state diploma, 2001), then I studied philosophy at Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (canonical license, 2005). My PhD dissertation was dedicated to Alexandre Koyré’s conception of the Scientific Revolution (defended at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 2012). Since 2013 I have been teaching history of philosophy, history of science and philosophy of science at Higher School of Economics (Moscow) where I currently keep the position of deputy director of the School of Philosophy. During last five years I am a member of the European Society for the History of Science, the International Society for History of Philosophy of Science and Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science. My research interests include the history of the Early Modern science and philosophy, philosophy of social sciences, network analysis, scientific and philosophical applications of thought experiments. My current research project is related to the historical interaction of real and thought experiments as types of argumentation in pre- and post-Galilean science in Italy.

My aims as Secretary of the ESHS: - to involve ESHS members to regular participation in Society’s life (voting, information exchange, etc.) not only during Biannual conferences but also between them; - to facilitate information distribution among ESHS members through new digital forms of communication (facebook, twitter, telegram-channels, blogs and others); - to promote the ESHS among Russian-speaking historians of science; to create a formal connection between the ESHS and the Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science; - to continue an effort of the previous Secretary for digitalization of documents related to history and current functioning of the ESHS.

Simone Turchetti (nominated by the presidents)

Presentation Simone Turchetti is a senior lecturer in the history of science and technology at the renowned Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) of the University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom). His research interests include the history of international scientific relations with special emphasis on the physical and environmental sciences. He is the author of two monographs (The Pontecorvo Affair, 2012, and Greening the Alliance, 2018, University of Chicago Press), has co-edited two collections (The Surveillance Imperative, 2014, and Science Studies during the Cold War, 2016, Palgrave), and published extensively in peer-reviewed international journals. He is a former ERC grantee (The Earth Under Surveillance, TEUS, 2009-2014) and is currently a lead investigator in the Horizon 2020 project Inventing a shared Science Diplomacy for Europe, InsSciDE, 2018-2021. He has been active in a variety of European research networks (Young Academy of Europe, ESOF) and contributed to organize the 2013 international history of science congress (ICHSTM) in Manchester. More recently he has contributed to set up a new Historical Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy (Division of History of Science and Technology, DHST) that was established on the occasion of the 2017 International Congress in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Statement I am an international scholar interested in the growth of our scholarly community. Two years ago I put myself forward for the ESHS scientific board because I was deeply impressed by the society’s statement (which I signed) regarding recent political developments in Europe and especially Brexit. As an Italian citizen living and working in the UK, I am persuaded that our chances to fortify our community and retain professional stability greatly depend on how successful we are in countering the disintegration forces currently at work in our countries and threatening international collaboration. I praised the ESHS efforts to strengthen relations with other international societies and the joint biannual meeting with the BSHS exemplifies the merits of this approach. If elected as secretary I would work towards increasing the society’s opportunities for networking internationally, in line with the President Elect’s statement made in Prague two years ago and in collaboration with the new Public Relations officer. As the interim president of the Historical Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy I am already active in networking with scholars from other continents. If elected I would also seek to further extend the excellent work of my predecessor in facilitating members’ access to the society’s activities (especially with regards to the society’s journal Centaurus). In terms of practical initiatives to improve the society’s modus operandi and day-to-day running, I would work towards the scheduling (or “calendarization”) of the society’s main

4 activities to be announced and implemented between general meetings, so as to promote awareness about the society’s work and increase participation. Reaching more widely to other groups internationally and facilitating access to the society’s initiatives would certainly have a positive impact on the society, especially in terms of memberships. To sum up I would be delighted to put my experience at the service of the society and be of assistance in reaching its ambitious objectives.

Candidacy for Public Relation Officer

Erika Luciano (nominated by the presidents)

Department of Mathematics, University of Turin, Italy mailto:[email protected]

Turin, September 3rd, 2018 Dear President and Members of the General Assembly, With this letter I offer my services to the European Society for the History of Science for the position of Public Relations officer. My permanent academic affiliation is with the University of Turin in the Department of Mathematics, where I have been associate professor of History of Mathematics (Complementary Mathematics sector) since 2015. My research focuses on the history of mathematics, with special regard to the dynamics of construction, transmission and socialization of tacit and explicit knowledge from international, national and local perspectives. The research ranges from the history of Italian ‘schools’ of mathematics, directed by Segre and Peano, to the history of mathematics education, social and gender history. My interests are increasingly dedicated to the study of relationships between science and power, and in particular to the phenomenon of racial persecution and emigration of Italian mathematicians and scientists in the period 1938-1945. In the last four years I have had the pleasure to serve the ESHS as secretary (2014-2018) and I added to these tasks those of PR officer (since April 2018), to cope with the resignation of the person who assumed this position until the next General Assembly. In both positions I have had the opportunity to follow - and to some extent to contribute to - the efforts of the society’s presidents and scientific board in building the society and highlighting its identity through the organization of the international biannual and in-between conferences, the promotion of the journal Centaurus, the reform of the society’s statutes (the discussion of which proved an interesting public relations exercise), etc. At the beginning of my first term, I thought that the existence of a European society for the history of science was a fact to be merely taken for granted. At the eve of the end of my service, I am afraid to say that many political events remind me daily - and remind all of us - that the ambitious aims of the Society to foster European integration and unity remain a goal to be reached. Serving the ESHS as PR officer is therefore not only a stimulating intellectual adventure, but above all a duty, an activity which I intend to undertake with strong commitment and a true sense of responsibility. I now take the liberty to submit to your attention some possible targets of my action.

As Public Relations Officer I would very much look forward to supporting the Society in continuing its on-going projects and research initiatives. Specifically, I am very excited about the idea of establishing an ESHS Committee for Education, as proposed by the President A. Malet in November 2016. It would be an honour to be part of this and to thus collaborate in the achievement of one of the main goals of the ESHS: to assist and advise on the teaching of history of science in Europe and beyond. In order to promote a closer retrieval and richer exchange of information regarding educational tools, experiences, and curricula in history of science in Europe and beyond I would be happy to create a survey of graduate courses of history of science at each level (secondary, undergraduate, and postgraduate education), which could be usefully added to the existing resources of our website. One area in which I could be of help is organizing a forum for discussions and exchange of information on these issues, thanks to the collaboration of our network of correspondents, and seeking the partnership of other national and international societies and organizations in the field (e.g. ESERA, HPM, etc.). I deem that such an initiative could also lead to the drafting of documents of interest for the Society at large, eventually including recommendations that could be passed on to national committees or educational institutions. With the aim of cooperating with the Newsletter editor in rendering the site an even more efficient tool, I commit myself to the project of thinking up new ways to sustain the cooperative atmosphere within our community. For example, special sections of the website could be created to post news and information about prizes, awards, archival research projects, season schools and teaching projects in history of science, and to moderate petitions. As a quite young scholar myself, I deem that the efforts we have made to shape a network of young scholars who contribute to the site by serving as correspondents from various countries across and beyond Europe, are absolutely essential and should be pursued and intensified. In particular I can put at ESHS’s disposal my own network of contacts with young historians of science and science education in Italy, Scandinavia and South America. I would be happy to maintain and intensify existing links with the national societies and other local institutions in collaboration with the Newsletter editor. For example, as a member of the councils of the Italian Society of History of Science and the Italian Society of History of Mathematics, and thanks to my experience of international partnerships I hope to be able to strongly propagate the ESHS mission. I would be even more delighted to assist the Society in achieving the closest possible collaboration with Italian societies and institutions should Bologna be chosen to host our biennial conference in 2020. Finally, working for our Society in these last few years has helped me to understand in detail its structure and activities. I would be glad to continue taking part in the life of ESHS and to support its duties and values. I thank you for your attention, and regard it an honour to be considered as a candidate for the position of Public Relations officer.

Candidacy for Newsletter Officer

Brigitte Van Tiggelen (nominated by the presidents)

It is with great pleasure that I accept the nomination as a candidate for the Council of the ESHS. I witnessed the very beginnings of the European Society for the History of Science and was on the scientific board for the first Maastricht conference in 2004. It was then a crucial and timely move to put the European community of history of science on the map and create a specific venue for this community. One of the first effect was to connect productive and lively communities from European countries that had less access to the dominant Anglo-Saxon venues or research output – and all that, notwithstanding, with the use of English for our ESHS! I have participated regularly to meetings since the Athens edition in 2012, as attendee or speaker/session organizer, and it was striking what had been accomplished in less than ten years. From the start, the ESHS was a very vibrant community, but it has grown much wider, in terms of attendance to the conference, in terms of topics of sessions, and last but not least, in the inclus participation from European and non-European countries. The ESHS has also grown tremendously in terms of ambitions and impact, with a prize for confirmed historians of science, a respected journal, and lately the continuous development of actions for the younger scholars in the job market that is increasingly tense. The fact that non-Europeans feel this is place to be and present their research demonstrates that the ESHS is now well anchored in the history of science world. The globalized scene of history of science calls indeed for a local European representativeness and identity, but also an ability to relate to the rest of the world. If elected on the Council, I would like to focus on the strengthening of external relations, be it international or outside of our community (for instance the scientists themselves). As to me, I’m specialized in the history of chemistry and work with the Science History Institute, formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation, in Philadelphia, for their European Operations. I chair the Commission for the History of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, a Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science / Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPS/DHST). I am also the chair of the historical division of the European Chemical Society, which brings me into close contact with the chemical community. In Belgium, I’m the founder and chair of Mémosciences, a non for-profit organization that aims at conveying history of science to science teachers and the general learned public. Under my presidency of the Centre National

8 d’Histoire des Sciences, hosted at the Royal Library (KBR) in Brussels, the team initiated workshops for school on themes from the history of science. It is my strong belief that the survival and the development of whatever entity depends on its ability to exchange and collaborate with its environment. The environment of the ESHS is multiple, be it in terms of national and international history of science communities, but also in terms of the wide spectrum of the communities that could or should be involved. And this is precisely what makes this community unique and so valuable to human society. Brigitte Van Tiggelen, September 5 2018

Candidacies for Scientific Board

Institutional Members

Maria Paula Diogo (nominated by the Center for the History of Science and Technology, University of Lisbon - New University of Lisbon)

As member of the Scientific Board I will focus my attention on the relationship between History of Science and History of Technology in order to strengthen and enlarge the common territory of the two sister areas. Being an historian of technology myself and having pioneered the field in Portugal, I had always very strong ties with my fellow historians of science and we collaborate on a regular basis in both fields. This proved to be an added value to the growth and assertion of the Portuguese community of historians of science and technology and I believe that the same will happen in the broader European context. I have a long experience in serving in other societies, namely SHOT – Society for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC – International Committee for the History of Technology, research networks, such as ToE – Tensions of Europe, STEP - Science and Technology in the European Periphery, and INES – International Network of Engineering Studies, and research units. I am currently Head of CIUHCT – Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology, one of the two ESHS’s institutional members. CIUHCT aims at asserting the relevance of History of Science and Technology in building citizenship and European identity and in tackling major contemporary problems. As leading research unit in the field, CIUHCT is preparing 4 volumes on the History of Science and Technology in Portugal and, on the international level, it participates in relevant pedagogical and scientific projects. I believe that both my experience and the networks in which I participate are an important asset to ESHS and will contribute to make it stronger and more influential in a changing, sometimes fragile, European context. I look forward to work closely with the ESHS Officers and particularly with the President Ana Simões, and with the other members of the Scientific Board, as well as with all other members of our society.

Presentation Maria Paula Diogo (Lisbon, 1958) is Full Professor of History of Technology at the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she teaches since 1986. Her research focuses on the History of Technology and Engineering in Portugal and Colonies (19th and early 20th century) and on the processes of

10 globalization of science and technology, particularly concerning knowledge transfer (circulation and appropriation), networks, and relationship between centers and peripheries. Additionally she is also interested in studying how Portuguese engineering built its professional identity and how it interacted with different political agendas. Currently she leads the Portuguese research project Engineering the Anthropocene: Colonial Science, Technology and Medicine and the changing of the African landscape, which follows a set of previous research projects on Science, Technology and Empire. In this context she participated in the Anthropocene Campus events in Berlin (2014, 1016, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) and co-organized the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia (2017, Drexel University, USA), being one of the seminar leaders. She is Work Task leader and Work Package leader in several H2020 research projects. She is co-founder of the first truly open access online HoST (De Gruyter) created in 2007, and of the Journal of Engineering Studies (Taylor and Francis), and in both cases she was member of their Editorial Board until 2017. She is also a founding member of international research networks and served in the Scientific Committees of both the networks and main societies of the field. She has published extensively in reputed international journals and she is author, co-author and co-editor of several books and chapters of books Her most recent co-authored book, Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging, (London/New York, Palgrave Macmillan 2016) is part of the Making Europe: Technology and Transformations book series (6 volumes), which was awarded the Freeman Prize by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST).

Clara Florensa (nominated by the Catalan Society for the History of Science)

PhD, Escoles Universitàries Gimbernat Centre d'Història de la Ciència (UAB)

I am tenured lecturer of History of Science, Applied Physics and Scientific Methodology at the Escoles Universitàries Gimbernat and member of the Centre for History of Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. My research deals with science during Franco’s dictatorship in Spain (1939-1975), with especial interest in the construction of scientific discourses that circulated in the public sphere in that period and the co-production of science and francoism. In general, I am interested in the historical relations between science and politics, science and ideology and science and religion. Regarding my work inside history of science societies, I have been deeply engaged with the Catalan Society for History of Science since I started my MA in History of Science: I have been coordinator of the Seminars Commission since 2012, Member of the board since 2013 and I am now vice-president of this Society, since 2017. I would like to contribute to the Scientific Board of the ESHS with this experience and my commitment with the promotion and communication of the History of Science.

Candidacies for Scientific Board

Individual Members

Qi Han (nominated by D. Bayuk and B. Zhang)

Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 55 Zhongguancun donglu, Beijing 100190, P. R. China [email protected]

HAN Qi received a PhD degree from the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. Since 2000, he has served as a professor at the same institute, and in 2015 he became the deputy- director. His main research field is East-West cultural exchanges from the seventeenth to twentieth century, especially the transmission of Western science in China during the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns. He has published seven books and about one hundred articles in Chinese, English, French and Japanese in various academic journals and proceedings, dealing with the social history of scientific knowledge and the spread of Western science in China. He was the former vice-president of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine and now serves as the editor-in-chief of the Ziran kexueshi yanjiu (Studies in the history of natural sciences) and member of the editorial board of the Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Annals of Science and Historia Scientiarum.

Statement I work at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on the history of science in China. I do social history of mathematics, and more generally history of science in early modern and modern times. I studied European Jesuits’ introduction of mathematics and astronomy into China, the reactions of Chinese scholars to what they called “Western science”, and the compilation of an Imperial encyclopedia in its social and political context. I am an archive person. I have spent several years in Europe, the USA and East-Asia, working in libraries and archives to find new documents which changed our understanding of the history of contacts between China and Europe. I have received invitations from different academic institutions in America, Europe, and some East Asian countries, and in the year 2000 I was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Besides personal research, I have also served the discipline, through running research projects,

12 advising young scholars and serving as vice president of learned societies in my field, in China and at the international level. My research bridges East and West. If I were elected as a member of scientific board, I would set me the task of intensifying the linkages of ESHS with Chinese historians of science. I believe that the cooperation between the historians of science in Europe and East Asia will contribute to a better mutual understanding of scholars worldwide.

Frank James (nominated by the presidents )

Frank James is Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution and University College London. His main research concentrates on the physical sciences in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how they relate to other areas of society and culture, for example art, business, media, religion, technology and the military. He edited the 'Correspondence of Michael Faraday', published in six volumes between 1991 and 2012, and a number of essay collections including '‘The Common Purposes of Life’ – a set of essays on the Royal Institution'. His 'Michael Faraday: A Very Short Introduction' was published in 2010 by OUP who the following year also published his sesquicentenary edition of Faraday’s 'Chemical History of a Candle'. His current research is on the practical work of Humphry Davy, including his work on nitrous oxide, agricultural chemistry, mineralogy, the miners’ safety lamp, analysis of ancient Roman pigments and his attempts to unroll chemically the papyri excavated from Herculaneum. He has been President of the British Society for the History of Science, the Newcomen Society for the History of Engineering and Technology, the History of Science Section of the British Science Association and is currently chair of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. He was chair of the National Organising Committee for the XXIVth International Congress for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine held in Manchester in July 2013. He was elected a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2012; he is also a Membre Effectif of the Académie internationale d’histoire des sciences and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers. A member of the Council of the European Society for the History of Science since 2012, he has co-ordinated the programme of ESHS2018.

Roberto Lalli (nominated by L. Gariboldi)

Roberto Lalli is a historian of modern physical sciences whose work focuses on the interaction of epistemic and social factors the history of twentieth-century physics, He received a M.Sc degree in Physics in 2007 and a PhD in International History in 2011, both at the University of Milan. From 2011 to 2013, he pursued research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(MIT) as the recipient of the Postdoctoral Fellowship in History of Modern Physical Sciences for the Program on Science, Technology, and Society. Since 2013, he has been a Research Scholar in Department I of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and since 2017 he is also Visiting Scholar in the Research Program on the History of the Max Planck Society. He has published extensively on the interconnections between theory and experiments in the reception of the theory of special relativity, the post- WWII development of general relativity, the reception of quantum physics in industrial laboratories and, more recently, the history of infrastructures related to the practice of physics, such as journals and institutions, addressing the impact of cultural and social dynamics on the production of new knowledge in physics. His papers have been published in major peer-reviewed journals in the history of science and physics, such as Annals of Science, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Notes and Records: the Royal Society journal of the history of science, Isis, Annalen der Physics, and Nature Astronomy. His first monograph, which deals with the history of the international community of scientists working on general relativity during the Cold War, was published by Springer in 2017 has so far receive very positive reviews. He is currently elaborating new methodologies based on the concepts and tools of the network theory in order to jointly analyze the evolution of scientific knowledge in physics, the creation of transnational scientific communities, and the developments of scientific institutions. During his career, Roberto Lalli has become increasingly involved in a number of research communities in Europe and the US and has acquired considerable experience in research management as on of the main coordinators of an inter-institutional research program on the post-WWII history of general relativity since 2014. In this capacity, he has been one of the organizers of a large conference held in Berlin in 2015 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of formulation the theory of general relativity. Since his PhD studies, his international network has constantly expanded following short or long visits to numerous institutions, and has received fellowships and grant-in- aids from the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics (3 times form 2010 to 2016) California Institute of Technology Archives (2013), Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (2017). He has been invited more than fifteen times to present his research in international conferences, workshops, seminars in Europe, including the Sphere Seminar in Paris, the Niels Bohr Archive History of Science Seminars in Copenhagen, the Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte at the Technische Universität Berlin, annual conferences of the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy, and annula conferences of the Italian Physical Society. This year, he will serve as invited plenary speaker at the III International Conference on History of Physics in San Sebastian. He is very active member of various societies in the history of science and physics including the ESHS, the HSS, the Italian Society for the History of Science, and Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy, Italian Physical Society, European Physical Society. In 2016 he has been elected member of the Physical Sciences Forum of the HSS. He has co-organized

14 various sessions in major conferences of scientific societies in the history of science including the European Society for the History of Science, and the History of Science Society.

Adéla Jůnová Macková (nominated by M. Sekyrková)

Otovická 621/10, Prague, Horní Počernice, 193 00, Czech Republic mailto:[email protected]

CARREER HISTORY 10/12–01/13 London School of Economics, research project: Czechoslovak export to Iran 1918–1939. 09/05–09/12 PhD studies, Institute of Economic and Social History of the Faculty of Arts, Prague. Main research interest in Czechoslovak foreign relations with countries of the Middle East in 1918–1938, and history of Czechoslovak scientific institutions and scientists. 09/01–01/04 Studies of History (Faculty of Arts of Charles University, Prague). Thesis focused on Czechoslovak-Egyptian economic and diplomatic relations in context of interwar development and international relations with the Powers. 09/99–09/00 Studies of History (Faculty of Arts of Charles University, Prague). 09/96–09/99 Studies of History and Egyptology (Faculty of Arts of Charles University, Prague). Research interest in history of Egyptology and Czechoslovak “Orientalism”

QUALIFICATIONS 09/12 Ph.D. in Economic History, Faculty of Arts of Charles University, Prague 01/04 Diploma in History, Faculty of Arts of Charles University, Prague (equivalent to M. A.)

06/13 Researcher. The Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 03/13–06/13 Researcher. Department of Historical Bibliography, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 10/12–01/13 Fellowship, London School of Economics, London 01/09–12/12 Research project: Czechoslovak scholars in the Orient 02/10–01/11 Researcher, The National Museum Archives, Prague 01/08–12/09 Research project: Czechoslovak relations with Iran. Vlasta Kálalová Di-Lotti in Baghdad 1925–1932 04/07–12/08 Archive researcher Institute for Egyptology. Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

01/05–12/06 Archivist, Czech Centre of Egyptology. Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague O1/03–12/05 Research project: Czech travellers in the Orient

Membership of Professional Bodies ASTENE – Association for the Study of Travel to Egypt and Near East, UK Egypt and Austria, Austria ESHS – European Society for the History of Science

Adela Junova Mackova works as a researcher in Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Dept. History of Czech Academy of Sciences). She is involved in a couple of research grant projects – History of Ethnology in Czechoslovakia 1945–1980, Habitus of Czech Scholars in the 20th century; History of the Oriental Institute. She has got experiences in organising international meetings and conferences as well as in preparing conference volumes. She is an executive editor of scientific journal Studies in the History of the Academy of Sciences. As a member of a scientific board she would like to involve in taking care of younger scholars, mainly in creating a net that would enable them to take part at ESHS conferences and specially to publish their lectures in scientific magazines abroad. The second important aim of her work should be preparing interconnections of projects between central European Academies of Sciences.

Pietro Omodeo (nominated by A. Malet)

I would like to submit my application as a member of the scientific board of the European Society of the History of Science. I am a professor of history and philosophy of science at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and principal investigator of the ERC endeavor “Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth- Century Europe”. My fields of historical research are science, philosophy, and literature in early modernity. My work encompasses the ontological and epistemological premises of medieval and early-modern natural philosophy and science up to the rise of mechanical visions of the world. I have investigated the history of cosmology and physics, in particular post-Copernican astronomy, early mechanics, and physico-mathematics. My inquiry into the history of science expands upon the wide cultural interconnections of early scientific debates as well as upon their socio-institutional embedment. Besides my competences as an early modernist, I also bring to the scientific board my vital interest in the connection between science and politics, in particular the inquiry of the collective praxis underlying the scientific endeavour. My take on historical epistemology is enriched by a political perspective along Gramscian lines of investigation. My publications include:

Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation (Leiden 2014); the co-edited the volume (with Karin Friedrich), Duncan Liddel (1561–1613): Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance (Leiden 2016); the coauthored work (with Jürgen Renn), Science in Court Society: Giovanni Battista Benedetti’s Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber (Turin, 1585) (Berlin, 2018); Political Epistemology: The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies (Dordrecht, accepted/in press).